The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE
MILL CITY, OREGON
DON PETERSON, Publisher
JAMES SMITH, Editor
Entered an second-clan« matter November to. 194* at the po«t office at
Mill City. Oregon, under the Act of March 3. 1879
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After five day» of »weltering heat, residents of the Canyon were treated
to another »hock. The too-fanilliar cry, “The wood» are »hut down echoed
up and down the Santiam Monday.
The logging seaHnn 1» ail too short, but the forests and men’» live» are
more important.
Soon the wet day» of winter will shut down the wood» again and the
men who carve their living out of the forests will again I m * hack at rent,
living on liard-carned Having«*. Will they I m * denied unemployment benefit»
during their idleness thi» year? A h of now that 1» a question, an import­
ant question.
We take g<M»d care of our torent», or try to. It’s time we take good
care of the logger and hi» family who 1» the backbone of Oregon industry.
Our whole economy hinges on bls welfare. Until the time that industry
can find him fiill-year employment, the pittance of an unemployment check
should not be denies! him.
Santiam Summer
Augu**t »4, 1950
Heibert came Sunday to spend a I 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE
week in the Heibert home.
DEATH NEVER TAKES HOLIDAY
Vacation Bible school started Mon-1
Adding to the "death never takes
day at the Idanha community church
By REBA SNYDER
a
holiday
” theme is the fact that this
with
Miss
Anna
Hamm
and
Miss
Doyle Leming moved to Salem last
year’s three holiday weekends have
week where he has employment. Mrs Mary Quiring in charge. Miss Hamm To the Editor.
Leming, who is unable to leave at I and Miss Quiring are staying in the It has been brought to my atten­ accounted for 19 fatalities. Nine oc­
this time and their daughter are Jerry Pittam home thia week. Bible tion that 25 or more adults in the curred during the Independence
Marion Forks, Detroit and Idanha weekend, seven over Memorial week­
staying with Mrs. Leming’s mother, school will last two weeks.
end, and three on the New Year’s
Mrs. Sievers, at the CCC camp.
American Legion Auxiliary food area are now required to travel 30 weekend.
miles to exercise their right to vote.
sale,
held
in
Van
’
s
clothing
store
last
A 7,500 gallon water tank is being
It does not seem fair or democratic
installed at the Idanha Lumber Co. Saturday netted them $22.70, which that these people be discriminated
mill to be used for the mill boilers is a little better than any organiza­ against.
I hope that our county
OREGON’S GREAT
and for a suppliment to city water tion has done thus far.
clerk will take care of this problem.
if needed.
Mr and Mrs. S. C. Roberts, Pull­
DAVE EPPS.
Mrs. Evan Howard, who has spent man, Washington, spent the weekend
the past two months here with her in the A. R. Snyder home. Sunday
husband, returned to their home in the Roberts and Snyders were guest
Wayne Bass Wounded In leg
Portland the past weekend, The of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Pittam.
granddaughter, Joyce Marshall, who Mr. and Mrs. Dave Roberts left During Fight for Korea
been here for a week, also returned Monday for Cottage Grove where Lyons—Pfc. Wayne Bass, son of;
to her home.
they will be guests of his sister for Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bass, received;
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Perton and a few days.
a shrapnel wound in the leg eight
baby are visiting her sister in Mr. and Mrs. Warren Stoll and inches above the knee early this
O'Brien until the work opens up here children started their two week's month.
again.
vacation Saturday. They will visit Bass was wounded August 10 and |
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Willis and Mr with relatives in Long Beach, Calif. has been removed to a hospital in
STARTS LABOR DAY
and Mrs. Vernon Hallford will spend The Hugh Denton family will soon Japan.
at least part of this week on the move to Tillamook where Denton has The soldier's parents learned the
¥ PRIZE LIVESTOCK ON
coast where the Willis’ are building employment.
extent of his injuries Monday after |
EXHIBITION
a garage.
Mrs. Ben Cherrier gave a party an anxious period of waiting follow­
¥ 4-H AND FF A STATE
John Delaire, who has been in a Tuesday for eight of her girl friends ing receipt of a War Department,
(HAMPIONSHIPS
Salem hospital for quite some time, in her home at the OCC camp. The telegram informing them that he had I
¥ RODEO AND HORSE SHOW
returned to his home here Sunday Cherriers plan to move to Sweet been injured in action.
EVERY NIGHT
Delaire is improving nicely.
Home soon.
¥ HORsh. |{A( IN(. D AILY
Miss Mildred Gooch, of Bellingham, Doris Bjork Of Sherwood, Ore.,
¥ W ATER FOLLIES OF 1950—
Wash., was in town Sunday visiting came Monday to visit with Eva New Postmaster’s Family Tours
Gigantic Aquacade and Stage
friends. Miss Gooch has taught for and her family for a few days.
Extravaganza!
the past two years in the Detroit Mr. and Mrs. Orvol Lady, Earl, Most of Western America
¥ FREE MIDWAY
grade schools.
Robert and Caroline went Monday to Postmaster and Mrs. Charles Kelly
ATTRACTIONS
Frank Ray is now able to return Willamina to visit relatives while and children, Johnny and Leia, toured
to work at the Idanha mill, after four work here is at a standstill.
most of the western states during his
months of forced vacation due to a
two week's vacation this month.
Admission 50c
hand Injury.
Both Salem, Ore. and Minneapolis Among the points of interest vis­
(Fed. Tax Incl.)
The P. H. Willems family, of Mc­ are, roughly, halfway between the ited were Yellowtsone national park,
C
HILDREN
12 anil Under FREE
Pherson, Kansas, cousins of Frieda equator and the north pole.
the beautiful Grand Teton mountains,
Salt Lake City, the Bingham canyon
SALEM, OREGON
copper mine, the Grand Canyon, Los
I
Angeles and Yosemite national park
BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET
IDANHA
iditor’s Letter Box:
STATE
FAIR
Sept. 4-10
Even as the parched woods pant for moisture, the Santiam summer
is about to end for the children of the canyon.
There’s a certain tenderness in the air as the first day of school ap­
proaches. To the eager or fearful six-year-old the first, day looms on the
horizon as an event more important than any event he will ever learn
to read about In history book».
To mothers and fathers there is a sadness in seeing their tiny tots
toddle no longer. Off they go to school and the state takes over its role
in growing another generation. Another firm hand guides them—the little
rascals, the wide-eyed girls, the tearful and the carefree. They enter a new
world where they get their first taste of humanity In the plural. They
---------------------------------- By BILLY ROSE------------------------
must adjust to their fellow pupils, to their teachers and to a strange world
When I was a kid on the East Side a couple of hundred year»
that cam be grasped from curious characters etched in black and white.
And time moves on. God willing In another thirty years, the same ago, a sidewalk was a lot more than a strip to walk on; it was some­
thing to dream on, tap-dance on, pitch pennies on and scribble phi­
children will lie parents watching another generation break into thejiarness. losophical sayings on, of the sort not found in Bartlett’s “Familiar
The endless pattern of the old teaching the young. But It isn’t always one­ Quotations." I'
However, , to
' Glnipv Myers, the leader of our gang, a
sided. Who can't learn a lot about the human race by watching the young­ sidewalk was none of these ihlngs—it was primarily something to
fish through.
sters at their summer games?
To put a fine point on it, what Gimpy fished through was not the side­
All summer long we’ve heard them. Shouts of glee, of pain, of bonny
walk itself but the iron gratings ever cellar windows and ventilation
youngsters, of galloping cowboys or of ground-flying pilots. It's going to shafts. And what he fished tor, with the a’d of a blob of tar dangling at
bo quiet around home. Mothers will get more rest after an early rising to the end of a string, was everything but fish—coins, picture buttons and
get the children off to school that is. But a* the silence hangs over the other bits of treasure which had fallen through.
house and she busks In the joy of solitude unknown for three months past,
There were two occupational------------------------------------------------
there will be a part of her that's marching off to school. That’s sitting at hazards, however, which used to
and peer through a grating near
annoy thi» Izaak Walton of the
a confining desk. She knows. She was there once—and now . . .
the curb.
dogs. Cops,
So the Santiam summer simmers no more and the days are shorter. asphalts — cops and
“Lost som’n, lady?" Gimpy
because a subway
asked her.
The aged adjust to the young, and the young seek a new life.
attracts
fisherman
Izaak Walton of the East Side
Did an Arresting Angling Job
Minority
How ninth 1« ii man's vote worth?
To resldenta of the Marion Forks area in northeastern Linn county,
voting is worth the cont of 50-mile round trip.
•In order to vote these people must come In as far as Gates. Dave
Epps points out elsewhere In this Issue in a letter to the editor, that some
twenty-five or more adults an» denied easy «'<■«« to the polls in this area.
The half-county long precincts of Rock Creek, Cascadia and Holly
should I m * split In half to provide the I.inn county residents along the high­
way 222 a convenient balloting place.
The coat to the county in maintaining a polling place In that area would
I m * more than offset In the realization that every person In that vast com­
paratively untamed area would have a chance to vote.
Voting Is the breath of democracy. Stiffle a man’s ability to vote by
any means and dem<M*racy is dead for that man.
lleiiuty Sillon
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Complete One-<Stop Chopping Center
FREE"G ive Away
With $10.00 or More Order
and
crowds
crowds, as a rule,
pickpock-
attract
ets; dogs, because
exposed
Gimpy's
rear was an invita­
tion for a q u i c k
snack, and on sev­
eral occasions
neighborhood
mon­
grels had given it
the full and painful
treatment.
As he grew older and more am­
bitious, Gimpy did less and less
angling on the lower East Side
where the droppin’s, and therefore
the pickin’s, were slim. Instead, he
invaded the lusher territories to
the north, and finally settled on
the gratings near the Union Square
subway where, if the streets were
not paved with gold, at least the
ventilation shafts yielded a reason­
able amount of silver.
• • •
THE COP on 14th street in those
days was one Ike Fogarty, a cyni­
cal gent who always suspicioned
that while Gimpy was fishing in
the subway, an accomplice was
fishing In the spectators' pockets.
But he was never able to pin any­
thing on the kid. and this irked him
so much that he finally threatened
to pull him in for obstructing traf­
fic the next time he caught him.
G<mpy took tbe bint and uni
back to Delancey Street — ibai ii.
until one .May morning when the
um doing •*’ >*■// end tn-
mg to icbool um out of tbe
Al bii lu/iiiliou, OUT
gang beaded north on tbe prowl
for cigar bandi, ttd on I fib
Street ut law a woman gel out
of a taut, tuddenly clutch M her
Ibrool,
¡loop
“A locket,” said the woman. “It
isn’t worth much, but it has a pic-
ture of baby.”
There were neither cops nor ca­
nines in sight. “I’ll git it fer ya,”
said Gimpy.
From a Prince Albert tin he took
a chunk of tar and held a match
under it until it was sticky. Then
he lowered it on a string and began
to maneuver it over the locket.
•
•
•
At THAT MOMENT, Officer Fog-
I arty rounded the corner. “This
' time I’m runnln' ya in,” he said.
“Playin’ hookey and obstructin’
| traffic at one and the same time.”
I "I’m only tryin’ ta git this lady
the pitcher of her baby,” said
Gimpy.
In exactly one minute and 46
tecondt. our leader delicately
eaied the locket through the
grating, pulled it free front the
tar and banded it to ill ouner.
Tbanhi," laid lhe woman.
"It'i lhe only picture I bate of
baby."
"Let’s get goin’,” said Fogarty.
Stalling for time. Gimpy said to
the woman, “Wculdja min’ ifn I
took a look?"
"Not at all." she said, and
snapped open the locket.
Inside
was a picture of a mean-looking
Pekinese pup.
“That ain’t no baby," snarled
Gimpy. “It's a lousy dawg."
“Watch your language, young
man” said the woman "Baoy’s
won more blue ribbons than you
have fingers and toes."
Gimpy slowly stuffed string and
tar back into ths empty tin and
dropped it down ths grating Then
ha turned to Fogarty.
“Okay, copper," he said. “Do ya
duty.
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DR. MARK
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REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST
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Will be at his Mill City office in the Jenkins Building
Thursday afternoons 1 to 6 p.m.
Also Thursday evenings by Appointment.
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